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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 36 | 26 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. Pretend to blame the person who cut the two inches off, say- ing: "Dear me, sir, what have you done ? You have quite de- stroyed this nice handkerchief. Well, I hope, madam, you will pardon the mistake, if I manage by magic to restore to you your handkerchief in perfect order, and I request you to allow me to try to do so. Carefully holding in the candle the edges of the cambric, (both of the part cut off and of the portion from which it was cut,) and letting the real handkerchief hang down from the same hand, pretend with a conjuring wand to weld together the edges of the cambric when they get hot, as a blacksmith "welds metals together. You can prevent the flame from reach- ing the real handkerchief by tightly pressing your fingers. Then exclaim : "Oh, where is the dime ?" and while picking it up from the table, get quietly rid of the pieces of cambric with their burnt edges into a hat or some corner unseen by the audi- ence. Holding up the dime which you had just lifted from the table say : "But to complete my trick I must replace this dime in the centre of the restored handkerchief, whence it was cut out.' Make the Pass 1, appearing to pass it into the centre of the handkerchief, but retaining it in your hand, and afterwards se- cretly pocket it. The handkerchief has already the borrowed dime in it. Say to the handkerchief: "Change-restore !" and unfolding it, show the borrowed coin in it. Shake out the hand- kerchief and show it is all sound and right, and restore it with thanks, as well as the borrowed dime, to the owners. TRICK 9.-To make a large die pass through the crown of a hat without injuring it. I will now give my young friends a nice, easy trick, requiring very little dexterity, as the articles for its exhibition can be pur- chased at any depot for the sale of conjuring apparatus there- fore the most diffident amateur will be able to display this trick. PREPARATION. Have a die exactly like the common dice, only it may be about two inches square. Have two covers for it, one of them exactly resembling the appearance of a die, only hollow, except that one side of it is open, so that it can easily be placed over, or be taken off, the solid die. The other cover may be of decorated material, and it is in- tended to be placed over the first die-cover. Let this last cover be made of some pliant material, so that by compressing gently two of its sides with your fingers, while lifting it up, you can lift up the first die-cover, which will be within it. |